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Re: Dry Fly - high performance fly lines?

Hey Luke;

Think I wrote a review on the Antonio Perez silk lines on this forum. Care is minimal, strip the wet part of the line off the reel at the end of the day and let it dry then spend five minutes running some grease over it using a piece of chamy and you can even limit the greasing to every three or four sessions of fishing. To my mind the advantages are the suppleness of the line, it lands like thistledown, cuts through wind better than most synthetics, and due to its construction helps to take some of the shock of a hard take.

Terry

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Re: Dry Fly - high performance fly lines?

Hi

On my side I hesitated between Antonio Perez and An « Olive Fly line ». After contacting both of them and discussing their fabrication method, I went for an Olive fly line:soie naturelle - oliveflylines

Obviously this is pure artisanal work, so probably not a brand many will have heard about. The quality is absolutely superb!!! It’s at least as good as my Phoenix, and to me Phoenix is the gold standard... the TT profile on the Olive fly line is really sweet for dry fly...

That said if I were on your side of the planet I would probably go after a Yano as it s made in Japan and has a top reputation worldwide...

Oh and to answer your question : if you give your silk line a minimum of care (dry it through after use, and grease it only when dry) it will last you a lifetime and it gets better (even more supple and more slick) over time... if you are a hardcore fisherman like I sometimes am and can fish 36h in 48h, you might want to consider having 2 lines so you can switch when one is wet...